--- Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, first post (in a long time) ... > > I thought to do something like: > > if [ -f myfile* ]; then > # do something > fi > > That's to find if there are one or more like > myfile001, myfile002, but > it reports an error "too many arguments" if there is > more than one. Any > simple/elegant way to do this? > > Thanks, > Michael
Here's one more suggestion to go with the several you've already received. #!/bin/sh FILES=`ls myfile* 2>/dev/null` if [ ! -z "$FILES" ]; then echo "File(s) found" else echo "No files found" fi HTH, Brad. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
